Social Media

LinkedIn and Twitter's Major Syncage

Earlier this week, LinkedIn made a splash when it announced that Twitter and LinkedIn status updates can now be synced. LinkedIn users could tweet from their status updates by checking a Twitter checkbox, while Twitter users could update their LinkedIn status by adding the hashtag #li or #in.

While we thought that users would latch onto the new feature, we never imagined it would do this. According to LinkedIn, status updates on LinkedIn have increased by 25%. Not only that, but at its peak yesterday, 200 users were linking their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts every minute.

Not bad, LinkedIn. Not bad. Still, the important stat is just how much growth this new partnership spurs for both sites. After looking at this month's stats, it would appear that Twitter, at least, could use a bit of a boost.

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